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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 137, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 4, 1992Portage County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1992, 9:07 AM EDT for Portage County, Ohio. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 4, 1992, 9:07 AM EDT (13:07 UTC)
Expired
Aug 4, 1992, 10:15 AM EDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Portage County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 125 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1992-08-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 342 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1992-08-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -15 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
342 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
730 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCAK 041308
SVRCAK
OHC133-041415-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AKRON OH
907 AM EDT TUE AUG 4 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AKRON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY......
 
IN NORTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...PORTAGE COUNTY
 
RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ON THE SUMMIT-PORTAGE
COUNTY LINE AT 9AM EDT. ONE-HALF INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED IN GREENTOWN
AS THIS STORM PASSED OVER SUMMIT COUNTY AT 850AM EDT.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
DEGAN

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 4, 3:24 AM EDT, 5 hours 43 minutes before
OHZALL-051200-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR OHIO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
325 AM EDT TUE AUG 4 1992

THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER IN KANSAS CITY SAYS THAT
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AR>E NOT EXPECTED IN OHIO TODAY OR TONIGHT.

KWIATKOWSKI

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 11:35 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEStark, Wayne3 hr
Aug 4, 12:00 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark, Summit60 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.